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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Curriculum referenced tests
Middle English
Standard deviation
Modern English
2. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Sound Symbol Association
Digraph
Cedilla
Oral Language
3. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Pre-English
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Letter naming Chart
CTOPP
4. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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5. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Great Vowel Shift
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Oral Language
Reading Comprehension Support
6. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
MSL
Accommodation
Linguistic Method
Standard Scores
7. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Diphthong
Open Syllable
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Multisensory
8. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Trigraph
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Rate
Norm-referenced tests
9. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Latin layer of language
Stanine Scores
10. Individual Educational Plan
Standard Scores
IEP
Digraph
Visual Learners
11. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Fluency
Accommodation
VC
Sight Words
12. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Curriculum referenced tests
Linguistic Method
Criterion-Referenced Test
Tilde
13. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
CTOPP
Funding
Auditory Learners
Rate
14. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Texas Education Code 28.06
Anna Gillingham
Mastery level
Attention
15. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Components of Reading Instruction
Macron
Phonological Awareness
Grapheme
16. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Criterion referenced tests
Affix
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Tactile
17. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Grade equivalents
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Mathew Effect
18. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Macron
Digraph
Comprehension
Prefix
19. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Comprehension
Components of Reading Instruction
Syllable
Vr
20. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Academic Achievement Tests
Trigraph
Raw score
Mathew Effect
21. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Percentile
Standard score
Anna Gillingham
Combination
22. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
ESL
Digraph
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Breve
23. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Phonemic/ decodable words
Multi-Sensory Approach
IMSLEC
Tilde
24. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Dyslexia
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Morpheme
Standardized test
25. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
Synthetic Instruction
Standard deviation
Criterion-Referenced Test
Modern English
26. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Profile
VAKT
Closed Syllable
Old English
27. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
Grade equivalents
Norm-referenced tests
Old English
Joe Torgesen
28. Final stable syllable
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29. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
NICHD
James Hinshelwood
Texas Education Code 38.003
Great Vowel Shift
30. Multisensory Structured Language
MSL
Sight Words
Top-down Reading Approach
V >
31. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Multi-Sensory Approach
Standard score
Vowel
Base Word
32. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
GORT
Semantics
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Middle English
33. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Closed Syllable
Grade equivalents
Three Layers of Language
34. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Ability
Auditory Learners
Cognitive Assessment
Cognition
35. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Standard Scores
Prefix
Chall's Stage 0
Multisensory
36. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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37. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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38. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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39. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Base Word
Phonics approach
Progress Monitoring
[-'le
40. Wide Range Achievement Test
WRAT
[-'le
Oral Language
Components of Reading Instruction
41. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
Percentile
Frank Smith
Reliability
Top-down Reading Approach
42. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
ALTA
James Hinshelwood
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Attention
43. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Synthetic Instruction
Battery
Mastery level
Morpheme
44. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Components of Reading Instruction
Multi-Sensory Approach
Six basic types of syllables
Base Word
45. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
Orthography
Tactile
Samuel T. Orton
Six basic types of syllables
46. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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47. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
Latin layer of language
Diagnostic Teaching
V >
Chall's Stage 3
48. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Joe Torgesen
Diagnostic tests
Standard score
Phonological Awareness
49. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Keith Stanovich
Syllable
Base Word
Old English
50. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Multisensory
SBOE
Combination